The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-08
BOOK NOTICES.

LIE IsNANs VENGEANCE; or, the North VS..
south. By Jules Verne. Part l. George
Mlhro, New York, publisher.
All who are acquainted with Jules Verne's
works can form a pretty fair idea of this
story 1t IS interesting and exciting, and
"hen once begun is not readily laid aside.
Practical FLoRIcuLTURE; a Guide to the Sue
ceSsful Cultivation Of Florists Plants for the
amateur or Professional Florist BY Peter
henderson, author of Gardening for Profit
Judd, President, 75l Broadway New York,
Publisher
This Is a work which those who are inter-
ested in Horticulture cannot afford to do
without. All that is new and valuable with
regard to florists plants can be found in
this volume, and the information can be re-
lied upon.
a MODERN CIRCLE. By the author of ''NIolly
baWh etc } Il. Lippincott Company, Phil
adelphia Price pc
This is one of the Lppincoot series of Sc
lect novels issued monthly 1t is an inter-
eeStlng story, and well worth devoting an
idle hour to.
The PRINCESS RoUBINE;a Russian Love Story.
by Henry Greville. J B. Peterson & Brothers
Philadelphia. Paper Cover.-Price soc.
This story breathes an atmosphere of love
from beginning to end. There is no sickly
sentlmentality about it, even its most i'm
passioned love scenes having practical ele-
ment at once unique and refreshing.
PooR's DIRECTORY OF RAILWAY OFFICIALS, for
1887, supplement- to Poor's Manual of Rail
roads. Price 81 co. II. V. & II. w. Poor, 20
Wall street, New York.
This work contains lists of officers of all
steam railroad companies in the United
States and Canada; officers of all street rail
way companies in the United States and
Canada: officers of private tram and lumber
railroads, etc; officers of auxiliary en-
terpr'ses-express, sleeping car and equip
ment companies, ETC.. officers of indus
trial enterprises dependent on the railway
system-car axle manufacturers car build
ers, car-wheel manufacturers, car-spring
manufacturers, rail mills, locomotive
builders, bridge builders, contractors,
etc; officers of associations of rail
road officials and of railroad employees,
boards of railroad commissioners, etc
To these are added special lists of general
superintendent, chief engineers, master
mechanics, master car builders, master car
painters, general freight and passenger
agents, purchasing agents, etc; an alpha
betical index to the names of all the officials
above mentioned, with a convenient system
of reference, showing lines with which each
is connected; and an Alphabetical index of
cities and towns, by means of which can be
aSCertalned the names OF all officials III any
particular city or town at once
MAGAZINES.
The August number of the S,ciSS Cross is
an excellent one. One of the best things in
it are illustrations of their new portraits of
Washington. The portraits bear very
slight resemblance to each other. The arti
cles are valuable and interesting, as they al
ways are in this magazine. n. d. G.
Hodges, A Lafayette Place, New York.
The Atlanta Medical Journal for Au-
gust is especially rich in reports and original
articles. James S. Harrison, Atlanta, Ga
The notable features of the August Wide
Quake are the first of series of sketches of
Old Concord and a paper on summer sports,
both illustrated. The village where
the first battle of the Revolution
was fought has been written and
pictured and guide-booked until the subject
is hackneyed; but nothing is fresher than
unexpected news of a sleepy old relic. Mar
garet Sidney, the writer, lives in "Way-
Side, the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
next door to the Alcotts', mile from Con-
cord bridge, towards Lexington.
Summer Sports is by Elbridge S. Brooks
Date of the st. Nicholas staff, who shines
in vacation as we'll as in his more accus-
toned work. He gets into half dozen
pages practical clues to croquet, bowls, hare
and hounds, canoeing, tennis, badmintOn,
quoits, -the-hole, or nine holes, and
stops with base bail, with bare mention of
boating, fishing, swimming, camping, tramp
ing, bicycling, photography. d. Lothrop &
Co, Boston.
The August number of the Writer is es-
pecially strong in articles Of interest to
newspaper men, although, as always, wri-
tiers in every department of literature will
find in it a great deal that is both entertain
ing and useful. The Writer, post office box
1905, Boston.
Outing for August presents us this month
with very attractive contents. The con
Guiding article on the History of American
Canoeing by C. Bowyer Vaux, is undoubt-
cdly the best paper on the subject, both as
regards information and illustrations, ever
offered to the public. Capt Coffin, an eye
witness of the memorable duel between the
Monitor and Merimac, tells what he saw of
the subject full justice. James Ricalton in
this number, commences his periious trip
through the wolf-infestod forest of Northern
Russia 1.-The Unbeaten Tracks of Khoras-
SAM is the text Of Thomas Stevens contri-
button. Elizabeth S. Rice discourses
brightly about the pleasures of yachting
trip round Block Island. Outing, 140 Mas
sau street, New York.
MUSICAL.
Ludden g. Bates Southern Music House
has sent to the MORNING News a copy of
"Gen. Boulanger's March," the famous sue
cess as performed by Gilmores baud, and
published by T. B. Harms & Co., SO Broad
way, New York.
The MORNING NEWS has also received
"Poes Bells" set to music by Miss Kate
Chambers, and published by j. E. Cham
bers, 100 Ira street. Atlanta, Ga.
WOMEN WHO FARM.